Cary Baynes

Cary Baynes, born Cary Fink (1883–1977) was an American Jungian psychologist and translator. She translated several works by Jung, as well as Richard Wilhelm's version of the I Ching.

Life Cary Fink was born on September 26, 1883, in Mexico City. She and her sister were brought up in their mother's home in Louisville, Kentucky. She studied at Vassar College, where she was taught by Kristine Mann, and graduated in 1906. Since 1915 Jaime had also divided his attention between Cary and Lucy "Nancy" Freeland, spending summer 1920 living with Nancy. In 1921, at Kristine Mann's suggestion, Cary De Angulo moved to Zürich to study with Carl Jung, taking Ximena with her, In 1925 she met Jung's assistant Helton Godwin Baynes, known to friends as Peter, at the Jungian Conference at Swanage. They married in 1927, setting up home in Hemel Hempstead in England, though they moved to California in 1928. The pair collaborated on translating Jung into English, and in 1929 Cary also undertook the translation of Richard Wilhelm's translation of the I Ching.

In 1931 Cary Baynes divorced Peter, who had fallen in love with another woman in 1930.

In the 1950s Baynes, prompted by Olga Fröbe and Jung, began collaboration with Lucy Heyer on a biography of Jung. She considered basing her biography on Liber Novus, but to Jung's disappointment withdrew from the project. 1977. Her papers are held at the Wellcome Library.

Works (tr. with H. G. Baynes) Contributions to Analytical Psychology by Carl Jung. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1928. (tr.) The Secret of the Golden Flower by Lü Dongbin. London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1931. Translated from the German translation by Richard Wilhelm, with a European commentary by Carl Jung. (tr. with W. S. Dell) Modern Man in Search of a Soul by Carl Jung. London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1933. (tr. with H. G. Baynes) Two Essays on Analytical Psychology. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1928. (tr.) The I Ching, or, Book of Changes. New York: Pantheon Books, 1950. The Richard Wilhelm translation rendered into English. Foreword by Carl Jung. (tr.) Change: Eight Lectures on the I Ching by Hellmut Wilhelm. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1960.